Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Archives - Cold War Radio Museum

A Book for Experts and Students of Cold War History

Curator — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 22:26:22 +0000

Mark Pomar’s new book about the Cold War political radio could help American government officials unfamiliar with the history of U.S. international broadcasting. By Ted Lipien Mark Pomar’s book Cold War Radio [Mark G. Pomar, Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Lincoln: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University […]

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Voice of America Censors Soviet Massacre Survivor Józef Czapski And Lies About Its Actions

Curator — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 01:35:00 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum On December 11, 1950, a member of the U.S. Congress revealed the Voice of America censorship of Józef Czapski, a Polish military officer, writer, artist, and a witness of Soviet war crimes. The U.S. government broadcaster, the Voice of America (VOA), partially censored Józef Czapski in 1950, when he tried to describe […]

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1953 CIA Source: People Died in Czechoslovakia Because of Pro-Communist Propaganda from Voice of America

Curator — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:05:40 +0000

OPINION AND ANALYSIS Cold War Radio Museum By Ted Lipien Note: The article has been updated to include information that Heda Margolius Kovály had worked in the 1970s as a freelance reporter for the Voice of America Czechoslovak Service under a radio name Kaca Kralova. A declassified CIA report from 1953 featured a claim by […]

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The Year 1968 in the History of Samizdat

Curator — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 05:50:46 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum The recent death of Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva brings into focus not only her contributions to improving the lives of millions of people but also the historic role played by the American-supported Radio Liberty (RL), which together with its sister station, Radio Free Europe, contributed to breaking […]

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Advertising for Radio Free Europe During the Cold War

Curator — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:31:26 +0000

This ad for Radio Free Europe was placed in American magazines in 1969 toward the end of the CIA’s involvement with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. Such advertising by Radio Free Europe in American media would also soon end. This particular ad, as opposed to previous Crusade for Freedom and […]

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Brief History of VOA’s Domestic Propaganda

Curator — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 14:49:42 +0000

OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn Brief History of VOA’s Domestic Propaganda By Ted Lipien The Voice of America (VOA) was an easier target than Radio Free Europe (RFE) or Radio Liberty (RL) for U.S. government bureaucrats wanting to restrict human rights broadcasting to the Soviet Union in 1974 as […]

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Former VOA Russian Chief Natalia Clarkson on Revolutions

Curator — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 20:55:39 +0000

By Ted Lipien Cold War Radio Museum Secession, aggression, and threats at large. Rebellions, upheavals, and street fights at hand. How frightening it is to be in charge Of this vast and terrible land! What seemed immortal is now dead. What had not existed now abounds. May God not allow what I fervently dread – […]

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SOLZHENITSYN Target of KGB Propaganda and Censorship by Voice of America

Curator — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 07:09:24 +0000

OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn SOLZHENITSYN, Target of KGB Propaganda and Censorship by Voice of America By Ted Lipien This research article, written for Cold War Radio Museum website to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik coup in Russia, deals primarily with censorship at the U.S. […]

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Russia, China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea

Curator — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 01:20:37 +0000

OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea By Ted Lipien When in 1974 the Voice of America (VOA) banned Alexandr Solzhenitsyn from its programs, the push for the ban may have originated with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Today, personal, ideological and partisan preferences of VOA […]

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The Obama ‘Reset’ with Russia

Curator — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 06:22:38 +0000

OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn The Obama “Reset” with Russia By Ted Lipien Hillary Clinton seemed to have had some understanding of how Russian propaganda works when she made her critical comments about the Broadcasting Board of Governors in 2013 to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, calling the […]

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